Construction of New Building for Afghan Centre at Kabul University Began
27.07.2009
On Saturday, 25 July, Estonian Charge d’Affaires in Afghanistan Daniel Erik Schaer participated in the laying of the cornerstone for the new building that is to house the Afghan Centre at Kabul University (ACKU). The event was opened with speeches by Nancy Hatch Dupree, the director of the Afghan Centre, and Muhammed Azam Dadfar, Afghan Minister of Higher Education.
Charge d’Affaires Daniel Erik Schaer emphasised that one of the goals of Estonia’s development co-operation activities is to help raise the level of education in Afghan society. “The construction of a new building for the Afghan Centre at Kabul University will provide students, instructors and researchers with much better access to and opportunities to use the centre’s collection of information,” Schaer stated. The establishment of a new building also allows for the creation of the necessary storage conditions for the ACKU’s unique collection, which currently contains about 38 000 documents and is constantly growing.
In 2007, Estonia supported the compilation of the necessary project documentation for the creation of the new ACKU building with 500 000 kroons, as well as the renewing of the Afghan national archive and mobile library with 440 000 kroons. The architect of the new building is Sebastian May.
